1) Coin of the Byzantine Empire 
Scyphate is a term frequently used in numismatics to refer to the concave or `cup-shaped` Byzantine coins of the 11th–14th centuries. This usage emerged in the 19th century, when the term scyphatus, attested in south Italian documents of the 11th and 12th centuries, was erroneously interpreted as deriving from the Greek word skyphos (σκύφ